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>The sad truth of it all is that this fetish is about self destruction
On some level, yeah. Last I checked, researchers still can't agree on what hypnosis is despite having models for different aspects of it. The explanation I've seen that makes the most sense is one that I really don't like, but sadly fits what I've seen most closely.
It's what esotericists and monks would call a mediumistic technique. To be clear, I'm not saying you're necessarily contacting spirits in it. You're basically training yourself to enter a hyper-passive state that, while not completely defenseless, is really easily influenced by stuff outside it. It's seen as existentially dangerous to yourself, as you're seen as basically bringing yourself weirdly close to the state of death on some level. It also renders the medium/hypnotic subject vulnerable to bullshitting out false memories to satisfy outside expectations in a way that's otherwise only seen in people who, for one reason or another (often due to a surgical procedure formly used to stop seizures), have their left hemispheres isolated from their right.
You can probably extrapolate some of the implications of this. It also makes a couple oddly common genres of hypnosis files (the real stuff, not the tranny music videos) make more sense. On some level I really